The temperature depends on how much carbon we burn, not how fast

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5. Here's the graph fulfilling its exponential destiny

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In my OP I had modified the carbon curve to be a linear from 2030 to 2060 just to show how little difference such an effort would make. Here's the same pair of graphs with the "unjiggered" carbon curve staying on the exponential it's been tracing since 1985. The party ends about 5 years earlier, but it makes no difference at all to the climate.

Thanks for the pointer to Wasdell. I'll watch him later this morning.